Free Geography Tools

Here’s a post I’ve decided to bury on the weekend :). Picopolo is a free photo album program that supposedly lets you also geotag photos, and organize them by geographic area, route, activity, etc.. I say supposedly because I can’t figure the program out:

• It’s originally written in German, and while there’s a English version available, there’s still a lot of German mixed into the program installation and operation
• The entire help file is still in German, which is a problem because …
• … program operation is not intuitive, to put it mildly. Icons don’t make sense, section operation names are obtuse, the layout and structure don’t make a lot of sense. Even the minimize/maximize/close program icons have been changed from the Windows standard for no good reason.
• There’s a “Quick Reference” section in English when the program starts up which gives you some hope. But that hope is soon dashed - it gives very little useful information about what the program does, and how to perform basic tasks.

Maybe someone else might find something useful in this program (especially if you can read German), so have at it if you like, and let me know what you think. But there are easier options for handling photos on a geographic basis, like LOCR or even Picasa.